Parsing a Playwright's Universal Language

By

Pia Catton

Feb. 3, 2013 11:48 p.m. ET

When I first switched from a BlackBerry to an iPhone, I had such a hard time typing that the autocorrect function would turn everything into total nonsense. "We're going shopping" once became something like "Ared fort Horowitz."

If I were a playwright, I might have thought: "There's a show in that!" But I'd have been 20 years behind David Ives.